Though Thai doesn't have conjugations for tenses, plural or gender, it is a tonal language. So take away one hard thing about learning a new language and replace it with something even MORE difficult. Not that it's a complaint. Just...another mountain.
I'm not frustrated by it. Simply nervous. Apparently, after the three months of training in Thailand, if the Peace Corps does not think you are ready, they can send you home. So, not matter what, I am preparing my butt off to learn Thai, and Thailand's customs and culture...there is NO way they are sending me home.
ma y-sa-baay for the moment, but i'm sure everything will be fineeee
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
All you need is...?
The current dream, which is to turn into reality within a month or so...: Go to New Zealand. Perhaps work as a ranch hand for part of the time.
Most people lives incredibly boring lives. By the time they're forty, they have nothing to say for themselves. "I have worked hard, gotten paid...lived in the same damn place for 10 years...Haven't met anyone new outside my group of friends i've known since, practically, infancy..."
Boring.
I refuse to give into boring.
For a large part of my life, I have done what people expect me to do, and think in terms that follow those closest to me. And though I felt quite individual, for the most part, I have quickly realized that I am a product of so many things outside of myself, that has nothing to do with who I actually am, or will be. So my conclusion is such: adventure. I have come to realize myself at least that much. That is all I need. Adventure. And all the realization, soul searching, and whatever else...that will follow in its own time. So screw politics, screw attitudes, screw cynicism, screw boredom, screw lingering love, screw the Ma-Chine...just eff it, eff it all. Just give me LIFE
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire" Aristotle
Most people lives incredibly boring lives. By the time they're forty, they have nothing to say for themselves. "I have worked hard, gotten paid...lived in the same damn place for 10 years...Haven't met anyone new outside my group of friends i've known since, practically, infancy..."
Boring.
I refuse to give into boring.
For a large part of my life, I have done what people expect me to do, and think in terms that follow those closest to me. And though I felt quite individual, for the most part, I have quickly realized that I am a product of so many things outside of myself, that has nothing to do with who I actually am, or will be. So my conclusion is such: adventure. I have come to realize myself at least that much. That is all I need. Adventure. And all the realization, soul searching, and whatever else...that will follow in its own time. So screw politics, screw attitudes, screw cynicism, screw boredom, screw lingering love, screw the Ma-Chine...just eff it, eff it all. Just give me LIFE
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire" Aristotle
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